Chapter 49


Before reading this chapter please make sure that you have read my story Sabrina Origins first or else much of this chapter will not make sense.


Barry looked about the house. It didn't seem that odd.

"Aunt Zelda?" Sabrina called out.

Moments later a woman with green hair dressed in all black emerged from a nearby room.

"Sabrina, what are you doing here?" the woman, who was apparently Sabrina's Aunt Zelda, inquired.

"I need to speak with my mother," Sabrina said. "Do you have any Shadow Thread?"

"Who is he?" Zelda asked looking at Barry and ignoring Sabrina's question.

"This is Barry Allen, a friend of mine," Sabrina said. "Now this is important, do you have any Shadow Thread?"

Once again Zelda ignored Sabrina's question.

"My niece has a habit of leaving out details," Zelda said. "I doubt she's told you who her mother is. But tell me Barry Allen, is this truly urgent?"

Barry shook his head and shrugged.

"I really don't know what's going on, but in the past 24 hours we've fought against multiple demons so I would say it's probably somewhat urgent," Barry replied.

Zelda frowned and looked at Sabrina.

"Demons? Do you think it's…?" Zelda asked trailing off.

"No, we're pretty sure that it's a man named Hiram Lodge summoning them," Sabrina said. "But I fear he's doing something far worse than just summoning demons. If it was just summoning demons I could handle that and I wouldn't be here."

"You know there are other ways to do this," Zelda said.

"I need to speak with her face to face," Sabrina stated firmly.

"Very well," Zelda agreed with a resigned sigh.

She stepped back into the room she had come from and Sabrina and Barry followed. Barry looked around and saw that it was some sort of den, or office or library. Zelda opened a drawer on the desk in the room and pulled out a small wooden box. She quietly muttered something and then opened it and pulled out a dark piece of thread that was perhaps two feet long.

"Okay, why do you need some piece of string?" Barry asked completely confused about what was going on.

"Well if I want to go visit my mother I kind of need to dress the part," Sabrina replied.

Barry just stared at her blankly not understanding at all.

"Her mother is in hell," Zelda explained.

"So we're going to travel to hell?" Barry asked.

"Well I'm going to travel to hell," Sabrina replied.

"Really, you bring him here only to leave him behind for the trip to hell?" Zelda asked.

"It's dangerous," Sabrina argued.

"Hey, I faced all those other demons and came out just fine," Barry said.

"Hell is far more dangerous than anything we faced yesterday," Sabrina retorted.

"I have one last piece of Shadow Thread," Zelda said opening the box once more and taking out another piece of thread. "We can send both of you."

"Good," Barry said before Sabrina could argue further. "Let's do this."


"Ha, ha! Eleven!" Jughead exclaimed.

Jughead was playing Catan with Betty, Cheryl, Sheila and Tim. He began picking up his corresponding resources.

"Hold on a second," Tim said. "Let me see those dice."

Before Jughead could do anything Tim picked them up and examined them.

"These are weighted!" Tim said. "Where are the proper dice?"

Neither Betty nor Sheila was at all surprised, but they knew Jughead's reputation of cheating at every board game. But Tim and Cheryl didn't.

"You're cheating?" Cheryl exclaimed.

She grabbed Jughead by the back of his shirt and lifted him up with just one hand holding him in the air. A pair of dice dropped out of his hand onto the floor. Cheryl tossed Jughead onto the couch and picked the fallen dice up and handed them to Tim.

"These are the proper dice," Tim said after comparing the dice Cheryl had given him to the weighted ones.

He handed the weighted one to Cheryl.

"Can you deal with these?" Tim asked her.

Cheryl took the dice and squeezed her hand into a fist. There was a cracking noise and when she opened her hand the remains of the weighted dice fell to the ground as little more than dust.

"I told you that your cheating would tick the wrong person off one day," Betty said smugly to Jughead.

Jughead just grumbled something under his breath as he stared angrily at the board.

"What do you think Barry and Sabrina are doing right now?" Sheila asked trying to break the tension and change the subject.

"I honestly don't know," Tim replied. "There's so much we don't know about her."

"Well hopefully we'll find out when they get back," Betty said.


"Whoa this is freaky!" Barry exclaimed.

Barry was covered in the Necroplasm armour of a Hellspawn, beside him Sabrina was likewise. He raised a hand to his throat as he noticed his voice sounded different.

"Well it's about to get freakier," Sabrina said, her voice also changed.

She grabbed Barry's hand.

"Tropelet su ot hcomyirbA," Sabrina cast.

The teleportation was different than the previous times Barry had been teleported by Sabrina. It was somewhat dizzying and his vision was a blur of colours. When the dizziness finally subsided Barry looked around to see that he and Sabrina were in some sort of city with buildings made of black stone and the air was hot and heavy.

"Where are we?" Barry asked.

"Abriymoch, the capital city of Phlegethos, one of the many sections of Hell," Sabrina answered.

"We're in a city of Hell to see your mother? Maybe I should have asked this before we came here, Why?" Barry asked.

"My mother lives here now," Sabrina replied.

Barry sensed that Sabrina was deliberately not telling him the entire truth. He wasn't sure why though. He followed Sabrina as she made her way through the city.

"Um, do we have to worry about being attacked by demons?" Barry asked as he nervously looked about.

"Only if you keep acting all nervous and being raising suspicions," Sabrina stated a little angrily.

"Sorry," Barry apologized.

They made their way through the city until they arrived at an enormous palace. There was a gigantic red demon with an equally massive sword standing guard at the entrance.

"Hello Gazra, remember me?" Sabrina asked.

The demon said nothing just stared at her.

"May we pass?" Sabrina inquired.

The demon considered for a moment. Barry was worried that it was about to kill them when all of a sudden it stepped aside and motioned for them to enter. Sabrina confidently strode into the palace while Barry followed behind a little confused and concerned.

"So you've been here before?" Barry asked.

"Yes, about five year ago," Sabrina replied. "Although time here in Hell is strange so here that could have been five hundred years."

"This is so confusing," Barry muttered more to himself than Sabrina.

They soon came to a pair of heavy set doors. Two large coal black winged demons with large tusk-like fangs protruding from their lower jaw and spiral horns carrying large poleaxes guarded the door.

"We're here to see Lady Fierna," Sabrina said.

The two guards stared at them.

"Let them in," a female voice called from the other side of the door.

The guards pushed the doors open to let Barry and Sabrina in. They entered a throne room. Seat upon the throne was a demoness with the body of a beautiful woman. She had pinkish-red skin and small horns as well a long tail with a vicious barb on the end. She was dressed in a short translucent black dress. Barry assumed that this was Lady Fierna. She stood up and smiled at Sabrina and Barry as they entered.

"Hello Sabrina," Fierna greeted. "Who's your friend?"

"Hello mother," Sabrina responded.

For a moment there Barry thought he had misheard.

"Wait, what? Your mother?" Barry asked confused.

"Oh Sabrina, are you not telling your boyfriends about me?" Fierna said with a fake hurt look on her face.

"Barry is not my boyfriend," Sabrina replied.

"No, well maybe he and I can play then," Fierna said.

"I thought your mother's name was Diana," Barry said trying to ignore Fierna's advance.

"It was," Sabrina said. "Fierna was the daughter of Belial, the previous Lord of Phlegethos. My mother was the vessel to resurrect her, now the two are one in the same. Although Fierna is the dominant personality."

"You make it sound like it's a bad thing Sabrina," Fierna said.

"We're not getting into this now," Sabrina said. "There's problems back on Earth. I think somebody is resurrecting a dead Lord of Hell."

"That's not possible," Fierna said.

"Only you Hell Lords can absorb souls, it leaves a tell-tale sign of purple veins on the victim," Sabrina said.

"Yes but that's not possible," Fierna said. "The whole reason why Diana… why I need to be brought to hell was because I could not be resurrected on Earth."

Realization suddenly dawned on Barry.

"That's why Hiram has all that meteor rock," Barry said. "To counter act that. The meteors aren't from Earth."

Fierna suddenly looked concerned.

"What is it?" Sabrina asked her.

"I've been hearing rumours," Fierna replied. "There's talk about the old Lord being brought back."

"Belial, your father?" Sabrina asked.

"No," Fierna answered. "The resurrection needs to be done by a human and Belial never cultivated much a following. I'm talking about Trigon."

"Trigon? Who's Trigon?" Barry asked.

"He used to rule nine of the sections of hell until he was killed in an uprising," Sabrina replied. "He's the one that killed Fierna before."

"It's bad for both Earth and Hell if he returns," Fierna said worriedly. "If you need help…"

"I'm not taking any help from you," Sabrina said. "The last thing I need is to be indebted to you."

"Sabrina I don't want anything," Fierna protested.

"We've already got everything we need," Sabrina said to Barry as she ignored Fierna. "Let's leave."

"Shouldn't we at least…" Barry started to ask.

"Tropelet su kcab emoh," Sabrina cast.

Suddenly they were teleporting once more. A moment later Barry and Sabrina were back in Sabrina's Aunts' house. The Hellspawn armour quickly faded away and Barry and Sabrina were back to normal.

"How did it go?" Zelda asked.

"It's not good," Sabrina replied. "Hiram Lodge might be trying to resurrect Trigon."

"But that shouldn't be possible." Zelda stated.

"Barry theorized that Hiram is using meteor rocks as a loophole to the fact that he can't be resurrected on Earth," Sabrina said.

"We need to get back to the others and let them know," Barry said.

"You're right," Sabrina agreed. "Thank you Aunt Zelda for your help."

"You be safe and good luck," Zelda said.

Sabrina gave her Aunt a hug and then took Barry's hand.

"Tropelet su ot s'ytteB mraf," Sabrina cast.

Suddenly she and Barry were back on the farm standing just outside the barn. They made their way up to the loft where Jughead and Tim were arguing about something while Betty, Cheryl and Sheila just watched.

"Oh hey you're back!" Betty noticed as Barry and Sabrina came up the stairs.

"So what did you guys learn?" Cheryl asked.

"It's not looking good," Sabrina replied. "It looks as if Hiram is trying to resurrect Trigon, perhaps one of the most powerful demons Hell has ever seen."

"But I thought you said Hell Lords couldn't come here," Tim said.

"That's where the meteor rocks come in," Barry explained. "Hell Lords can't come to Earth, but the meteor rocks aren't from Earth."

"What a convenient loophole," Sheila muttered.

"What can we do?" Betty asked.

"I don't know," Sabrina replied. "But the resurrection spell requires a human vessel. If I had to guess Hiram is serving as that vessel himself; he probably thinks he'll be the one in control. But I know he won't be."

Barry gave Sabrina a glance but said nothing.

"One thing though is that he won't be able to act for a while," Sabrina said. "Hell Lords obtain their power from their absorption of souls and it will take quite a few for Trigon to regain his power. Until then he's simply a man who can absorb souls."

"So we just follow the bodies," Jughead said.

"If he's smart we won't find them," Sabrina said. "He's hidden himself from being able to be found magically."

"Still he might slip up," Tim said. "I'll set things up so that we are alerted about any sightings of Hiram. But we'll have to be ready to move on a moment's notice."

"I hate feeling so helpless to do anything," Betty said frustrated.

"Let's take our minds off it, let's go shopping for prom dresses," Sheila suggested.

"You might as well," Tim agreed. "I can use Dilton's equipment to hack into various security services to try and find Hiram but it will take me a while."

"Hmm shopping, hard to think I haven't done that in a while," Cheryl said.


The story's next major villain has been revealed. But will Betty and the others be able to find him before the transformation is complete? Or if they can't will they be able to stop him?